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The Baltimore Book Festival, once an annual staple in historic Mount Vernon Square, is smack dab in the touristy Inner Harbor this year, a move that got mostly positive reviews Saturday.

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Old photographs, newspapers and other miscellaneous "gay pride ephemera" from the last half-century of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history in Baltimore will be added on Tuesday to one of the nation's most esteemed museum collections.

This was the promise: No longer would African-Americans be forced to pick up their meals from the back door of restaurants. No longer would they need to fear being unable to find lodgings on their way home from a trip.

For Lawrence Peterson, the redevelopment of his Mount Vernon neighborhood was every bit as much of a calling as his 20 years in the U.S. Navy.

Two years after shooting, second Mid-Town victim dies

On Monday, 994 days since an earthquake shook the Washington Monument from top to bottom, the marble-and-granite national landmark reopens to the public.

For years, Baltimore Pride tradition has held that the Saturday parade turns into a rowdy block party in the heart of Mount Vernon, while the Sunday festival in Druid Hill Park attracts families and kids. This year will be different.

Approximately 40,000 people are expected to attend FlowerMart in Mt. Vernon.

WTMD's first First Thursdays concert last night could be described in many ways, but "damp" comes to mind first.

Preservationists and city hope to restore, draw visitors to structure built in 1828

Monument work is fine, plan to cut down trees the real problem

Reports of the Washington Monument renovation disrupting Mount Vernon are greatly exaggerated

Some Mount Vernon residents are concerned about the impact of the restoration of the Washington Monument.

At least one local business is planning to fly drones over Baltimore after a judge ruled that there is no law prohibiting the commercial use of small unmanned aircraft.

Those of us living in and around DC — not just those of us, like me, who actually root for Baltimore's teams over Washington's — should follow the lead of our good neighbors to the north and realize that there can be life after a change of name for a professional football team.

A retired school administrator might have cracked the mystery of the identity of a man who scrawled his signature in the Washington Monument nearly two centuries ago.

Who exactly J.W. Hogg was and what, if any, contribution he made to Baltimore's Washington Monument may be a question left for the ages. Hogg's name, written in block letters with a pencil next to the date 1829, was among dozens of 19th-century signatures and drawings discovered this week by a restoration crew using hand tools to delicately remove loose plaster from the monument's subterranean vaults.

Who exactly J.W. Hogg was and what, if any, contribution he made to Baltimore's Washington Monument may be a question left for the ages. Hogg's name, written in block letters with a pencil next to the date 1829, was among dozens of 19th-century signatures and drawings discovered this week by a restoration crew using hand tools to delicately remove loose plaster from the monument's subterranean vaults.

Homicide detectives were investigating the discovery of two bodies in Southwest Baltimore on Thursday morning, police said.

For more than a decade, First Thursdays, the popular monthly free concert series organized by Towson University's public radio station WTMD, has regularly filled West Mount Vernon Park with thousands of music fans of all ages.